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April 06, 2004 20:11

• Chief of Aslan Maskhadov's bodyguard is in grave condition

  Many residents of the republic hold that recently, Kadyrov's people have been actively introducing the practice to take relatives of Chechen commanders hostages compelling those commanders to "voluntarily give themselves up" for the sake of saving their close people's lives.

April 06, 2004 20:08

• Chechen human rights defender receives Martin Ennals Award

  The 2004 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA) ceremony is to take place in Geneva on April 7. This year's MEA goes to Lida Yusupova, head of the Grozny Office of the Human Rights Center Memorial.

April 06, 2004 17:08

• Karabakh rights defender: Azerbaijan people should resolutely declare against military operations

  "I am convinced there will be no large-scale military operations in the zone of the Karabakh conflict. People in Azerbaijan are not so silly to forget about the military potential of our country," coordinator of the Karabakh NGO Helsinki Initiative - 92 Karen Ogandzhanian said in his interview with the new newspaper Demo published in Stepanakert.

April 06, 2004 16:12

• Armed Zviadists leave forests in Western Georgia

  Over 50 followers of the first Georgian president Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who have been opposing to the power of ex-president Eduard Shevardnadze and hiding in forests in the Samgrelo region (Western Georgia) for the last 12 years, laid down arms and returned to peaceful life in Tsalendjikha on April 4.

April 06, 2004 15:38

• Illegal settlement of Uzbek workers disclosed in Krasnodar Territory

  The press services of the regional interior department and the Federal Security Service (FSB) report that in the course of the operation to reveal illegal migrants, places have been established where many people breaking the rules of residence in Russia live.

April 06, 2004 14:40

• No students sent down, university officials say

  Over 10 students at the Ingush State University who participated in a meeting at the Government House in Magas recently, have been reprimanded by the university administration. The Caucasian Knot correspondent learnt it from one of the university students.

April 06, 2004 14:24

• Club of Civil Education to meet in Krasnodar

  As reported by the Krasnodar regional NGO Creative Union "Southern Wave", the subject of the discussion will be "Civil Education as a Way to Pubic Policy".

April 06, 2004 12:07

• Assassination attempt on Ingush president

  An explosive device was set off on the federal route Kavkaz when the president's car was moving to Magas. Murat Zyazikov did not suffer.

April 06, 2004 11:32

• NGOs demand dismissal of Kutaisi mayor

  The NGO activists assert the 2002-2003 Kutaisi city budget was worked out incorrectly and budget funds were not spent for the purpose.

April 06, 2004 11:05

• War Prize competition continues

  Outstanding human rights activist Elena Boner, widow of Academician Andrey Sakharov, holds Vladimir Putin is in fault for the Chechen war on the Russian part, and Akhmat Kadyrov is in fault for it on the Chechen part.

April 05, 2004 22:41

• Mikhail Saakashvili urges Adjarian leadership to submit to statehood rules of Georgia

  "We will not allow human rights in Adjaria to be trampled underfoot because somebody there wants to preserve his material status and monopoly", said the Georgian president.

April 05, 2004 22:32

• 9 demolition experts arrested in Chechnya

  Federal forces and the Chechen president's security service carried out several special operations in the mountains and the forests to arrest members of bandit formations who were preparing large-scale terrorist attacks both in and outside of Chechnya.

April 05, 2004 22:12

• Victims of hostage crisis at Dubrovka theatre to sue Moscow authorities

  Former hostages and relatives of victims of the 2002 hostage crisis at the Dubrovka theater in Moscow will file a plea with the city prosecutor's office on Monday for opening a criminal case on the city government financial department's refusal to carry out a Tverskoy court ruling on the payment of compensation to them, announced their lawyer Igor Trunov.

April 05, 2004 22:04

• Opposition activists arrested in Armenia

  According to the press secretary of the opposition bloc Justice, Ruzanna Hatchatrian, more than 10 members of opposition parties were arrested in the evening of April 4 and in the morning of April 5 in Yerevan and surrounding regions.

April 05, 2004 22:00

• Officers establish names of militants who attacked servicemen in Chechnya

  Achishvili, Muskhanov and the Chalayev brothers, members of illegal armed groups who are now in custody, committed several acts of terrorism against federal servicemen.

April 05, 2004 15:29

• Second congress of Javakhk NGO takes place in Georgia

  Participants passed the organization's charter again and adopted the program of its further activity.

April 05, 2004 14:33

• Imam of Juma Mosque convicted in Baku

  On April 2, the Azerbaijan Court for Grave Crimes put imam of Baku's Juma Mosque Ilgar Allakhverdiev (Ibragimoglu) on probation for five years.

April 05, 2004 13:33

• Satsita tent camp to be dismantled by end of April

  Main efforts of the agencies engaged in problems of the return of IDPs [internally displaced persons] to Chechnya have been aimed at the liquidation of the Satsita tent camp since 2 April.

April 05, 2004 12:41

• Body of Gelayev is still in Rostov

  Gelayev's relatives have made three unsuccessful attempts to take his body from the morgue of a hospital in Rostov.

April 05, 2004 12:17

• Three explosive assemblies of high capacity found in Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district

  The capacity of each of the explosive assemblies was about 40 kilograms of trotyl equivalent, the officer of the republican interior ministry said.